Monday, August 17, 2026

Tag: national security advisor

The Bolton administration has already begun

The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks.

This is what makes John Bolton so dangerous

With John Bolton as National Security Advisor, a badly-advised “Donald the unready” is more likely than ever to cause tragedy and death, on a scale we can’t yet imagine.

Flynn’s facts: Get to know Trump’s pick for national security advisor

An uncharitable person might conclude that Flynn is seeking revenge against enemies in the previous Administration.

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The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
The mouth of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park. Photo: Ralf Kiepert / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park

Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The United States Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, where the case against 15 protest defendants is pending. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches

Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.

Former police officer sentenced to federal prison for using excessive force

“The actions of Mr. Maynard are disturbing and violate the trust placed in him by the community.”
Crowds of anti-war protesters filling a London street on 15 February 2003

Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine

The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.